handol

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by handol 4y ago
The detonation produces higher pressure and temperature, causing higher exhaust gas velocities. More energy in the exhaust means more push from the same amount of propellant. About 15% more. The other yet to be realized in practice advant
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by handol 4y ago
> Most companies decided to just pull diesel cars from the US market, and it turns out that all of the ones that stayed were tricking the tests in one way or another. That's just not true. There were three options, stop selling die
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by handol 4y ago
>I'm actually surprised that there isn't more direct action against overly aggressive drivers. What direction action could a cyclist take on a car driver that intentionally buzzed them while passing? I suppose if you happen to
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by handol 5y ago
> A future myth? Yes, a story about the future that he wants to generate a collective social belief in.
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by handol 5y ago
Seems pretty selfish to keep all that money when he could give it back to Meta.
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by handol 5y ago
I think it really boils down to, they need a near future myth for investors to speculate their stock price up. That myth is, ubiquitous, always-on AR is just around the corner, and they're going to be the platform it runs on.
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by handol 5y ago
Take the money from public education and fund vouchers. Those vouchers aren't going to get you into the good private school, you'll need money on top of the voucher for that. They get you in the school that prepares your for life
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by handol 5y ago
What percentage of the population do you think would need be hospitalized for "brutal" to be accurate?
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by handol 5y ago
If giving his collaborators credit diminishes his stature, then his stature must have become overblown.
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by handol 5y ago
You don't have to look at other industries. Other auto-manufacturers do their testing on test tracks.
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by handol 5y ago
There has been some evidence that DNA can be preserved far longer than the half-life would suggest. https://academic.oup.com/nsr/article/7/4/815/5762999
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by handol 5y ago
Is that simply your impression, or is there trip length data to support that?
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by handol 5y ago
> We know what happens to matter at those speeds, it becomes infinitely "heavy" and would experience time in relative light-years (I mean time-to-travel at light speeds) no? I don't think we do know what happens. Relativ
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by handol 5y ago
Isn't getting where you're going in less time the whole point of going fast? Why would you want to use a device that made your journey take longer?
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by handol 5y ago
> It was never a stipulation of warp drives that they would cause something to move. The name was lifted from a very well known science fiction universe, where it has exactly that stipulation. As a result it carries that implication for
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by handol 5y ago
The field can't help being click bait with a name so loaded with implications that the work does not back up. e.g. that the warp fields studied would be capable of causing something to move.
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by handol 5y ago
You can still raise sentient animals for slaughter, it's pretty far from being a legal person. Other animals in the sentient legal category include all vertebrates.
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by handol 5y ago
And they rarely need to leave with the Costco and the night club on the roof.
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by handol 5y ago
MSNBC and techchrunch aren't 'other' to the category of corporate media
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by handol 5y ago
Would you believe that a text-to-speech program was suffering if it told you so?
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by handol 5y ago
The quote (referring to a presentation on surface disinfectant studies): > I asked Bill a question that probably some of you are thinking of, if you're totally into that world, which I find to be very interesting. So, supposing we h
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by handol 5y ago
> That conversion is done by a crankshaft and once a crankshaft is in the system ... you get diminished efficiency because you're only getting maximum shove force in the middle of the piston stroke. I don't think that's ri
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by handol 5y ago
I think the Tesla "Tiles" of 25 D1 chips are on a single wafer with integrated interconnects. But there is certainly a huge difference in the memory bandwidth claims. Cerebras claims 20PB/s, and Tesla claims 10Tbps.
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by handol 5y ago
> Sure, but ditching your 20-year old beater of a car for a new electric one is not viable for a large percentage of the population at the moment, even in the richest countries. Maybe when 20-year old beater EVs are a thing the tide will
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by handol 5y ago
for almost all inputs
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by handol 5y ago
The article seems to treat psychosis, psychotic symptoms, and Schizophrenia as though they all refer to the same thing.
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by handol 5y ago
Doesn't that mean that warp drives are not possible? I mean if the device can't produce a driving force why call it a "drive"?
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by handol 5y ago
Yes, it gets to terminal velocity pretty quickly, it's decelerating for most of the fall as the atmosphere gets denser. Estimated kinematics from a prior flight. https://flightclub.io/result/2d?code=SN91 edit: To
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by handol 5y ago
The difference would be supersonic/hypersonic flight during the fall.
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by handol 5y ago
> (10 million watts of electricity) 10 million watt-hours of electricity Your system would produce 10 million watts if it did 10 million watt-hours per hour.

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